Re: Crash on Startup

On 07/14/2010 12:29 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Was using Nedit 5.5 on fresh FC13 install.  Nedit  was working fine as usual, until a couple weeks ago.  After some FC13 updates (not sure which one(s) was/were the culprit), nedit now locks up the PC when nedit is launched. Doesn't matter whether it starts from command line or from a file association in nautilus. The window starts to draw (just the window outline, background and menu bar, no menu bar text, no window title, no window resize/close buttons, no text at all).   Believe it is crashing X, not the entire PC,  as I have seen disk activity after the lockup, but cannot bail from/restart X without rebooting. I have to reboot the PC via reset button or power cycle.   
> 
> Tried uninstall/reinstall via yum to no avail.   Also was not able to compile from source, but I gave up after a just couple of attempts to resolve missing files.  A search of the archives hasn't turned up a fix.  Have used Nedit for over a decade and hate to switch.  Any clues?   Am running an AMD dual core x64 processor and gnome.  The FC13 install package as reported by yum info is:
> 
> Name       : nedit
> Arch       : x86_64
> Version    : 5.5
> Release    : 22.fc12
> Size       : 489 k
> Repo       : fedora
> 
> Seems odd the release is fc12 and not fc13....
> 
> Any info is appreciated. TIA
> -Paul

One possibility is that the update brought in a new X driver for your
video hardware, and it's either buggy or the xorg.conf file is misconfigured.
Depending on your video hardware vendor (Nvidia, ATI, Intel...) you may
be able to swap out Fedora's distributed driver for a (probably binary) vendor-
supplied one, at least for testing purposes.  If the lockups go away
you at least know that the X driver system was partly to blame.  If they
don't, you can start focusing on libraries, or stracing nedit, etc.

If it is the video driver/hardware, it is unlikely that only Nedit breaks
it.  I've seen recent cases of Flash and Javascript apps in Firefox lock
up video hardware -- just scrolling up and down on a Facebook page could
do it.  Have you tried other video-intensive tasks, like streaming from
a webcam, or watching a movie?

Carlo

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